Topsy turvy logic. "If it is right for non-Americans to influence the choice of whom Bush appoints to be World Bank president or as his country's ambassador to the UN, then it was right for Bush to send the US army into Iraq." This is the intriguing, but absurd, argument of Charles Onyango-Obbo writing in the East African.

Onyango-Obbo may have a point with the Bush nomination of Bolton to represent the U.S. at the United Nations. But he seems not to have realised that Wolfowitz is not becoming U.S. Executive Director at the Bank, but the president of the whole thing. As it is the World Bank people have every right to express themselves.

Alex Wilks ~ April 27, 2005

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